Mentoring Structures and the Types of Support Provided to Early-Year Undergraduate Researchers.

ABSTRACT: Research has shown that mentorship provided to undergraduate researchers affects the extent of research outcomes. Although a large body of literature focuses on the faculty-undergraduate dyad mentorship structure, little is known about mentoring triads (i.e., interaction among undergraduate students, faculty, and graduate students or postdoctoral associates) or the support provided to early-year undergraduate researchers. Mentors provide various types of support (e.g., intellectual, personal, emotional, and professional support) to undergraduate researchers to increase their engagement in a discipline. This qualitative exploratory study aims to investigate undergraduate researchers' perspectives on mentoring structures and the support provided to them in their first and sophomore years. Th

SUBMITTER: Ceyhan GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8711828 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature